瞒天过海 瞞天過海
瞒天过海瞞天過海 in English
- to cross the sea by a trick (idiom) / to achieve one's aim by underhanded means
Stroke order
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Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
瞒
These are the forms of 瞞, the traditional character: 瞒 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script
天
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
过
These are the forms of 過, the traditional character: 过 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
海
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 13 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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要是他没有下令做这个调查她本可以瞒天过海好多年。
If he didn't order this investigation, she could have flown under the radar for years.